Theological Branch: Cosmology



Topic: The Sabbath and Cosmology and Sunday as the Mark of the Beast, Part 3

SubTopic: Sources of the week

 Sectional topic: Astronomical arguments of the week part 1

Pierre LaPlace called the week "the most ancient monument of astronomical knowledge..."

The week has been mostly describes as the creation of Jewish theology. However it is undeniable that the Sabbath day has been kept in the memories of the people through the Hebrew economy.

Outside the Hebrew society it is the Germanic Tribes in Europe that had a seven day cycle, probably derived from the Helenestic culture through Alexandria  the capital city of the sciences in the 4th century BC.
The Genesis account states the following with regards to the creation of the solar system:

Gen 1:14-19 KJV 14 And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years: 15 And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so. 16 And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also. 17 And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth, 18 And to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that it was good. 19 And the evening and the morning were the fourth day.

The week is not mentioned, but the Genesis account states that God said,  " *let them be for _signs_ , and for seasons, and for days, and years* " , one can glean from that verse  the Sabbath as being incrusted in "signs".

Eze 20:12 KJV Moreover also I gave them my sabbaths, to be a *sign* between me and them, that they might know that I am the LORD that sanctify them.

References.
1). Copeland S L, "Sources of the seven day week", in Popular Astronomy vol 47, № 4, April 1939. Whole № 464, Maria Mitshel Observatory and NASA Astrophysics Data Systems.

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